Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson of ukcolumn.org. Geopolitics, Christianity, education, constitution.
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From the Friedensstimme magazine for supporters of evangelists in the former Soviet Union:

Mikhail and Ina Soloshenko, who married in 2020, fled the war on 12 March. Their shelled, burnt-out car was found days later and they were buried on 22 March. The body of their son Efraim has not been recovered.
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Children sheltering in a Kharkov basement.
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Nikolai Bondarenko (69), a well-known preacher around the Kharkov area, died of blood loss from a grenade fragment as he left his family in the basement to see whether the street was clear.
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We reported on UK Column recently the filmed abduction of two clergymen from a service in Smila.

Christians in that town recently went to the mayor and obtained permission to replace the billboards cursing the Russians with Biblical posters, including “Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation” (Ps. 85:7 English verse numbering / 84:8 Russian numbering).
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British middle-class mores

1950s: Never say a bad word around children, and if they utter one themselves, correct them

1980s: Never discipline children for any reason whatsoever and their minds will turn out just fine, apparently

2020s: Be terrified of catching an infection while taking your children for a relaxed and liberating gawp at strangers’ genitals

https://tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/the-family-sex-show/
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Crucial philosophy from John Waters—mumbo-jumbo is something scientism is as guilty of as the theologians are.

https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/christ-haunted
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Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
Crucial philosophy from John Waters—mumbo-jumbo is something scientism is as guilty of as the theologians are. https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/christ-haunted
John Waters continues:

“Post-Christian culture, the husk of Christendom, has reduced this word [Christ] to a pietism. Inside the bunker, the thinking of Christians has moved from what appeared to be a prior unambiguous certainty in matters concerning Christianity to a mindset in which Christ has become a kind of fairytale figure, a sentimental idea and a moral policeman.

The increasing divergence between religious belief and sociological reality is lazily deemed to be a function of increasing ‘progress,’ with populations becoming more and more knowing and ‘intelligent.’ But modern-day scepticism is not really a product of the forward march of time, having much more to do with processes whereby the receiver of information in mass-media society is given a little knowledge about everything but never enough in-depth understanding to strengthen the framework by which to perceive how everything is inter-connected.

Thus, the individual feels ‘informed,’ can endlessly regurgitate isolated pieces of knowledge, can even speak assuredly about scientific progress with a general sense that this is somehow debunking the ‘old’ understandings of the world.

What we lack is the over-arching hypothesis that might enable us to integrate this information into a functional understanding of our own situation as mysterious beings held in the mysterious embrace of a total reality beyond our knowing.”
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A colleague has asked me why the Arctic Convoys to relieve the wartime USSR didn't use the Bering Strait to avoid the deadly U-boats. Does anyone have reliable information?
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Thierry Baudet recently drew attention the original wartime book The Managerial Revolution in the Dutch House of Representatives.

The reason why it’s anti-feminists like him and Aaron M. Renn (article below) who are hot on it is that it’s a cornerstone of the conscious replacement of familial bonds with technocratic pseudo-allegiances.

https://aaronrenn.substack.com/p/newsletter-63-understanding-the-managerial
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The Future of Work (1 of 2)
John Waters
A reading by me of an exceptional article by John Waters. Part II should be up tomorrow.

https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/the-economy-of-permanent-emergency-5af
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A succinct write-up of the Grand Jury Day 2 testimony that included Brian Gerrish, Debi Evans and me representing UK Column.

https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/downloads/GrandJurySummary1.pdf
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O, the times they are inflatin’.

https://t.iss.one/disclosetv/7563
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